Reflection on Draft Revison
My drafting process wasn’t as terrible as I was imagining it to be. Throughout the semester, we started working on building up a draft little by little; first coming up with an introduction, then adding on about 1000 more words to it, making it substantial. Then, as we talked more about specific things in class, such as transitions, I incorporated new sentences into my draft to make it flow better. Once the first draft of about 2000 words was turned in, we got feedback telling up what we might want to improve on. So a revision plan was posted onto my blog (Revision Plan). Some of the drafting was difficult because most sources out there, dealing with teens and tweens online, only talk about the dangers of sexual predators. Not many discuss exactly why people go online to meet others in the first place and the motivations behind doing so. But once I started looking deeper into my research, things became easier to find.
Once I had a plan, I quickly started making changes on my paper. First on my list was to change common mistakes such as spelling, grammatical, and punctuation errors. Once I went through my paper doing that, I fixed some of the sentences that didn’t quite make sense because of the way they had been worded. I continued to make my transitions stronger, so the reader would be able to jump from one kind of thought to another easily and follow my thought process. Also in this revision plan, I compressed my introduction and I took the advice from my peer reviewers and searched different websites to back up some of my statements in which they felt people might need more evidence to back them up. One specific part of my paper that I had changed was that I tied Justin’s story together with both reasons as to why teens would talk to strangers online, while knowing about online sexual predators.